Posts by joenobody

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recommend some new music

by tijkmo in

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have you found some new band or artist that you would reccomend we listen to...for this to work we would need to know what style of music you normally listen to and then we can know if its what we would enjoy...eg.

i like pink floyd...genesis...yes...etc.....................and have just found mercury rev......brill

joenobody

Bloc Party - Silent Alarm

Doves

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So Who's Going to Win American Idol This Time Around?

by TresHappy in

i think nadia is the most talented, but that mohawk last night didn't win her any points with the judges.

simon growl is predicting this week that carrie underwood will win and sell more than any previous ai winner.

of course last week he predicted bo would win.

joenobody

Nadia - I like her, but she butchered "Time After Time"

Carrie - will place about 4th and immediately be the most successful person from the show with a bland country career

Constantine - very disappointing - he's a total poseur with a mediocre voice

Mikayla - probably gone this week

Bo - easily the complete package - he's sooooo relaxed out there and very unique. His rendition of "Time in a Bottle" proved that less is more

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Believe in 607 BCE or you are not one of Jehovah's Witnesses

by VM44 in

if a jw states that 607 bce is incorrect, how long will it take before the elders announce from the platform to the congregation that the person is "no longer one of jehovah's witnesses"?

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joenobody

Funniest thread in a while!!! It's always fun reading one where 607 comes up and you end up waiting for scholar to post.

scholar! You are getting lazy dude! Your retort simply consists of listing out 4 date choices and saying "607" is the obvious choice? Can't you at least cut and paste your usual blather?

Come clean once and for all with some real credentials. I'd sincerely like to read any peer reviewed material you have written on the matter.

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How does Google work so fast? Any techies with an inside track?

by AlmostAtheist in

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i'm banging on an oracle database with a table holding 200,000,000 records.

just getting a count of those bad boys takes several seconds.. it got me to wondering about google.

they index 8 billion pages.

joenobody

I do a lot of Oracle work as well and wanted to know the answer.

Google's own answer is hilarious!

http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

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counsel from elders

by bonnzo in

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how many have had elder give u this counsel(or if /were an elder given this counsel):

"its come to our attention that u were(fill in space with anything that is up to your own conscience that is ok in wt world such as pg-13 movie, certain music, or choice of entertainmen).

this has offended the conscience of others" then proceeds to counsel u to cease and desist so as to appease the other persons conscience.. isn't this a case of the sensitive conscience forcing me to abide their concience even more so than they claim im offending theirs?

joenobody

I received some counsel once like this from an elder. My brother and I had attended a concert by a particular band (a progressive rock band, nothing metal etc). Anyways, the elder said to me, "now that you are an MS, you might want to be careful about what you do so that you don't offend some other's consciences."

I asked, "Is there something wrong with the band that we went to see?"

"Err... no."

"Then I don't see what the problem is".

To which he had no argument. The whole "you might stumble someone else" argument is garbage. It allows them to deem some things as conscience decisions that the WTS has not particular stance on, but allows for local standards to be imposed. Pure garbage.

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Song suggestion for video needed

by confusedjw in

so incense and peppermint gave me a great song suggestion for a "big hits" hockey video i'm doing for my son's high school hockey team.

it was "let the bodies hit the floor".

now i need a song suggestion for a "best of passing".

joenobody

Pass the Dutchie

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FOND FAREWELL TO THE BI-MONTHLY AWAKE!

by steve2 in

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with the jw congregations about to be informed that the ubiquitous awake!

magazine is to be issued just once a month from january 2006, now is an apt time for interested parties to share brief memories and/or impressions about the bi-monthly awake!

magazines, whether poignant, hard-hitting or humorous.

joenobody

If they are trying to save money, it seems like a funny approach. I remember when there would be a particularly unpalatable WT magazine, you could tuck it into the Awake! and just present that instead. Will it mean changes to the WT? Will the WT contain many of the same fluff pieces? I can't see anybody wanting to accept a WT at the door in it's current format.

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New 607 info?

by startingover in

i just discovered something i have not seen anywhere before.

i was looking at my old "all scripture inspired" book, and i say old because it was the first edition from 1963 and i had used it for years.

according to the wt cd there were revisions in 1983 and 1990. i came across this little goodie under the book of daniel.

joenobody

Stecka,

I don't think your mom would be too pleased to find out you are posting on this board. Shame, shame. Dare you to let one of your school chums read your posts - brainwashed might be the word they come back with.

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Spinning the Noah Story WT Style

by Farkel in

for as they were in those days before the flood, eating and drinking, men marrying and women being given in marriage, until the day that noah entered into the ark; and they took no note until the flood came and swept them all away?

note that jesus said nothing about noah doing any preaching or doing any warning to others about the coming flood.

?evidence?

joenobody

Good point Ezekial. God gave the specs early on in the account - didn't seem like he was planning on saving anyone else.

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Spinning the Noah Story WT Style

by Farkel in

for as they were in those days before the flood, eating and drinking, men marrying and women being given in marriage, until the day that noah entered into the ark; and they took no note until the flood came and swept them all away?

note that jesus said nothing about noah doing any preaching or doing any warning to others about the coming flood.

?evidence?

joenobody

Hey Farkel,

I just re-read those chapters in Genesis and it amazes me that as a youth I never noticed that there is absolutely no mention of Noah interacting at all with the people of the time. All that other crap that the WTS made up like his preaching work, the ridicule he and his family endured and the fact that "no one listened to poor old Noah" is pure bunk. I can't believe all the extraneous detail that was worked into the story by the WT.

I mean the way the text is written, Noah and his family might've been hermits from Society and out of view. Maybe they made that ark in secret. Who knows? Maybe nobody even noticed what they were doing. We don't even get mention of whether Noah did it begrudgingly. Geez I seem to remember being taught that Noah had to do it "just so" and couldn't skimp on the specifications from God. I can't even find any of that nonsense.

Basically the account is that God decided he wanted to destroy everything, told Noah to build an ark and once completed brought a flood. End of story. I can't believe I bought into all the other crap that was extrapolated by the writing committee. It's just so wrong.

Hell the Troy McClure version of Noah's ark on the Simpsons was probably more accurate -

God: "Noah! They shalt builts thyself an ark, measuring 300 cubits in length!"

Troy/Noah: "300 cubits... give or take."

God: "Exactly 300! And thou shalt taketh two of every creature"

Troy/Noah: "Check. Two creatures."

God: "Two of EVERY creature!"

Troy/Noah: "Even stink beetles?"

God: "Especially stink beetles"